whom i happen to have followed for many years traveled with and you know there was a time when harry reid was the minority leader in the senate working with mitch mcconnell and joe biden was vice president in president obama's administration and joe when they had a tough deal something going on joe biden would go over and try and help things out make things work and harry reid asked the president just stop letting joe biden come over to the senate this is the leading democrat saying don't let joe biden come over any more he keeps wanting to do deals with republicans and it is in his nature to reach across the aisle to listen to those people who did vote for donald trump to go meet with their leaders and to find some space where they can do something jointly and together and to neutralize and detox of by this environment it's what joe biden is known for that's what he did in the united states senate and i suspect that what harry reid was upset about at that time is the strategy that joe biden is going to take when he proceeds forward to try to deal with those 70 millions of americans who a

what the harry reid machine has done is throw out recklessly ballots and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seeing discrepancies all over. we are asking clark county to give us answers. all of your questions about the details are legitimate questions and they should be asked of clark county because the county officials are not giving us any answers. they continue to count illegal votes. ballots versus legal votes. that is what we are talking about. it is unacceptable in this country. presidency is literally -- listen. you are here to take in information. just do your job, it is pretty easy. >> thank you all for turning out. thank you all for turning out. the presidency literally hangs in the balance. what the fundamental principle is here is that we want to be able to make sure the counting that occurs and the results that haven't can be respected by every american voter and across the world. if you are not allowed in to see the process, both sides, and the media, so there is transparency and meaningful observing of ballots, that calls into question what the results

in a fewen minutes, i'll speak with joe biden's long-time colleague harry reid for his take on the race. the former vice president began his day in dpe. at a church the burial place of his son beau who made his father promise him on his dath bed he would stay in public life. biden went on to visit his childhood home in pennsylvania where he signed the living wait a minute wall. from this house to the white house with the grace of god. president trump made a rare trip to his campaign hazard kwaeters in virginia. capping off a set of grievance-filled rallies and interviews. >> have you written an acceptance speech? >> no, i'm not thinking about concession speech or acceptance speech yet. hopefully we'll be doing only one of those two. winning is easy. losing is never easy. not for me it's not. >> regardless of what happens, the president is set to host hundreds at the white house tonight. this as dr. debra birx of the coronavirus task force warns against gathering in a report that was dated yesterday. that was obtained by the washington spoes. quote, we are entering the most concerning an

and you mentioned the right name in harry reid. harry reid first really tapped into the culinary union way back when he ran for reelection in 2010 and no one thought that he was going to win. but the culinary union, and more importantly, what the culinary union represents, not just workers, but the hispanic bloc of voters in las vegas. at least half of that union is hispanic. and so the culinary union and the rest of the democratic reid machine, as it is often called here, essentially was sidelined for six months during the pandemic. the culinary finally got back out into the field and said they were devoting more resources than they ever have to the election. i take them at their word. now, early voting, which is usually very robust for the democrats in clark county, they usually bank a lot of votes, was not that great, republicans actually won. but they made up for it by running a mail program. and the mail has been more than half of the vote. hundreds of thousands of votes. and the culinary feels pretty comfortable about where t

, because i have a quote from a top aide to harry reid.katz says, sometimes you have to fight, we can't fold before we've had one fight. this is a criticism of the biden administration, saying maybe the biden administration is entering this thing with more of a conciliatory tone versus a fighter tone. what do you make of this? >> you know, i think he has to do both. i think he has to put out the olive branch to republicans, but be ready to move if they don't accept it. after having it out there for a while and you don't see any movement, then you do need to fight. but i think the country does want to see some unity, they do want to see some of that trump rhetoric of division toned down. but actions speak louder than words and if we don't get anything from the republicans, then joe biden is going to have to go at it alone. >> we will be watching and seeing. rick fityler, joel payne refuse victoria defrancesco soto, happy thanksgiving to you all, guys, thank you. >>> after the break, work, school, holidays, it's a lot, especially if you're a

senator from north dakota h nevada, harry reid.urse, served as the democratic majority leader in the united states senate for eight very consequential years from 2007 to 2015. it's great to see you tonight. >> so good to see you. >> i want to get your top-line thoughts, tonight, sir, on what soo we're seeing in nevada. we, of course, don't know what the results will be. getting results here and there. do you feel confident the biden campaign will ultimately pull out a win in nevada? >> the answer is yes. what your viewers need to us is nevada has changed a great deal. 80% of the people in nevada live in clark county. that's las vegas area. another 10% li. 90% of the voters in nevada. rural nevada has not be people but they turn out really high. but i'm convinced that the votes we have left to count are mostly from clark county and i think that without any question nevada will go for biden. >> i just spoke with john ralston, who you know well, as a political journalist in nevada, about some of what's started to happen in the state.

cap personal between harry reid, majority leader at the time of the nominee john mccain and they had been very good friends and during that election year it got personal.in i do think they have a good relationship but at the same time mitch mcconnell easily won his reelection bid and it looks like he will hold on to the senate so i don't think there is a huge incentive for mcconnell and remember, one of his top political goals in the first term of president obama was to make sure that obama was the one term president. i'm sure mcconnell wants to mak joe biden a one term president as well spew. >> i want to invite our viewers to join in on the conversation about the election and what is next for congress.s. if you are a democrat (202)748-8000, republican (202)748-8001, independent 202748 ###-8002 text us with the city and state with (202)748-8003, this morni bob cusack your newspaper had this headline, democrats lookomo sharpened message after senate setback. explain. >> well, democrats are very disappointed. they have been trying to win back the senate for years and they thought this

harry reid machine. recklessly through ballots into the mail. and now we cannot check.er or not there are non residents which we have evidence publicly available evidence that you all in the media should be also looking at. it's publicly available information that non-residents have voted there's a 30 day residency requirement. in the state of nevada. then in the state for 30 days. it is illegal. 2 boats. reporters have a responsibility. the fact is we are filing this federal lawsuit to protect. >>legal voters. it is unacceptable in this country to have illegal. >>votes counted and that is what's happening in the state of nevada. we've asked clark county for answers. they have no answers. they continue to count illegal. votes that is unacceptable. and it's giving legal people. a sense that the system is corrupt. we have to have a system where legal votes are but the harry reid machine has done is throw out recklessly. ballots. and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seen discrepancies all over. we are asking clark county to give us answers all of yo

. >> joining me now are adam jefferson, former deputy chief of staff to harry reid and brendan buck.nks very much to you both. what do you make of mcconnell's stance now compared to what he said in the past, the day after the election, long before it was certified where here he's supporting the gsa holding it all up. >> yeah, i mean, the hypocrisy here is undeniable. of course, this comes only a month after mcconnell rams through a supreme court nominee after saying in 2016 that no nominee should be confirmed in an election year. the hypocrisy is historic and undeniable. what's important to understand, though is that mcconnell doesn't care about being called out as a crip cr hippocrat because he'll do whatever is best for him to maintain and acquire power. what he's doing here is trying to keep trump voters loyal and enthusiastic in order for them to turn out in the two georgia runoffs that could control the senate. it's not an excuse. it's a further indictment of why he's doing what he's doing, but that is what he is doing here. trying to keep trump voters loyal, enthusiastic behind

early in the obama administration, harry reid and some other people were angry he was a little too eagergame with mcconnell. have is theren i are senators who have things they want, republican senators. if they get it, they will play ball. there are some people who are going to be more of the tea party side who feel they cannot go along at all. you only need a handful of senators to get something through. joe: if you were advising biden, what would you advise him to do regarding the existing trade policies president trump has set on course, particularly china? >> that is hard to say. i have not thought about that in a well. the president made mistakes going into it, but i would be hesitant about completely reversing course. you would probably want to give that some strategic thought. i know there is a rethink going on in washington about what the future of china is going to be going forward. just about everybody wants there to be some sort of decoupling of essentials from china. how far that goes i do not know. i will have to give that some hard thought because it is more of a geopolitic

kind of smooth things over and do deals with the republicans he's a natural dealmaker you know harry reid did not want to do deals with the other side at that moment so i think that's a side that people will be reminded of about now president elect biden because he reaches out to the side i was speaking at the a minute minutes ago to senator joe manchin on the phone who is the most conservative member of the democratic senate caucus who is trying to propose that we need a period of healing and he's good friends with joe biden saying we need to go back and begin seeing biden go into those communities that didn't vote for him and find symbolic ways to reach out to them and to hear them remember joe biden kept talking about empathy wanting to be on people side even though government can't fix everything and i think he's going to try and do that and he's going to go meet those republican leaders and remember mitch mcconnell went to beau biden as funeral they are that close so mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader his chief joe staying partner now is going to be is is someone who went to

he made it look like monkeys, and it's all your fall, harry reid's. but mohammed al was one time way ahead of them. more of but there again, how you got the photograph of this. these were basically happy, happy moments of the beatles a leave. of course, you also photographed some of the, the great tragedies that were happening in america at that time and particular, you were present and photographing that. assassination of robert kennedy. tell us what happened. mark kennedy, they were, i knew bobby a light bulb. maybe i knew it and i'm still friendly with its family. it's awful to move from a happy situation like in one california. and he says something and on to chicago and in, in never get in the ball room. he's walking, i would be about 5 yards behind him, and then the screaming. i never saw the guy with the gun because of the crud, but then once there was screaming and the next thing you see is, bobby is down. but i'll never forget, that's the screaming it was like the show can now been dallas because it was so close to dallas and people were just

a sense that the system is corrupt we have to have a system where legal votes are cast but the harry reid machine has done is the row out recklessly ballots. and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seen discrepancies all over so there's that joe biden has already responded saying that he has a team of lawyers on standby to potentially if i don't know trump and cool it over the recounting of the votes but while both biden and trump juking it out legally juking out duking it out in front of the judge their supporters again we've already seen them taking to the streets the election night has already seen scuffles and violence as protesters clash between each other not anything significant but again this could be just a very very small ignition which could grow into a full on wild fire all across the united states this is certainly the concern that is being well reiterated and echoing all across the social media and so on and so forth for instance just to show you a little bit move these protests and these demonstrations coming from both sides here they are. ok thank you.

a sense that this system is corrupt we have to have a system where legal votes are cast but the harry reid machine has done is the row out recklessly ballots. and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seen discrepancies all over. well definitely looks like they are ready for war doesn't look like even if those results from the. come rolling in at that game to give it up any time so absolutely both biden and trump already full legal will because trump obviously he's challenging the results biden has fired back saying that a they have a team of lawyers which is on standby and to you know to fight back against trump's lawsuits and also. joe biden has said that this strategy of you know legally trying to bog down the counting of the votes and the announcement of the results of the election that the strategy will trump won't work these joe biden's words but this is not the scariest thing if you ask me because they're ready for war as you rightly said but their supporters they are even move already and war is not metaphorical well for many of them they are ready to go on the b

a sense that the system is corrupt we have to have a system where legal votes are cast but the harry reid machine has done is the row out recklessly ballots. and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seen discrepancies all over. but statements like these they have this temperature you've been talking about only rising more and more because the 2 sides of the country because you can see how close this election is right so basically you have half of the country who's adamantly against trump and another half of the of the country who are for trump and so when you tell one half that guys you're being screwed over that your votes are being stolen that there are some people who shouldn't be voting that there are some ballots who which shouldn't be counted which are being you know put down on the roast and these votes go food joe biden these people get very very angry and a different kind of people they also feel disenfranchised they feel that look as if trump doesn't want some valid votes to be counted just to win the election just to keep the seat in the white house so both

the final point interns and -- in terms of the political shape, this is harry reid versus sheldon adelson. there is a lot of nevada politics. valda politics can be very volatile -- nevada politics can be very volatile. david: please stay with us. meantime, we want to bring in rebecca green. as the rays narrows, the losses seem to multiply with the trump campaign pursuing actions in michigan, pennsylvania and georgia. to take us through that, we welcome rebecca green of william & mary law school. thank you for being with us. give us your take on where we are. pennsylvania, an announcement a short time ago from the trump campaign, they think they have a major victory. people could go in within six feet to monitor the vets. >> several of the claims the trump campaign are bringing relate to transparency measures. election observers being able to watch the voting process unfold. all states have laws that allow members of -- given, states have different laws --, but allow someday, either already representatives are members of the public to observe the vote counting process per that is to ensure

kevin: it is harry reid versus sheldon adelson and clark county , where, just specifically, overwhelmingly, that state's population, where las vegas will be so incredibly important to turn out there. i would bring out the senate spread, tom, in particular, because regardless of -- what we know this morning is that the senate is going to be much more close. we do not know the precise numbers. we actually will not know the precise tally because of the runoff until early january, but what we do know is that people like senator joni ernst won. she is the republican incumbent in iowa. steve gaines in montana, a he won.an incumbent, lindsey graham was able to win his seat in south carolina. defeatingark kelly republican senator martha mccann sally -- martha mcsally. trending too far to the left as of now could we still come of course, have a handful of seeds remaining. kevin, what happened in florida, and what happened to the latino vote? catholicll, cuban and americans clearly vote for president trump, and the dynamics of the hispanic vote, as republicans have said for quite some time, is not a

its own, and there comes a point at which i start having serious conversations, you know, with harry reidng, "you really should think about it." and it is at that point that i do go to talk to michelle about it. and she does-- her initial response is no. but what i said to her as we still need to think through all the different elements of it. and if at the end of that, you still say no, then it's no. and she sort of changed her mind, kind of. >> stephen: i've read it. she does. >> but what is absolutely true is-- and i've never fully gotten out of the dog house for this-- is that i put her and our kids through an extraordinarily stressful, difficult sequence in deciding to run for president right after i had just gone through a tough race. and, you know, michelle stayed angry at me about it, you know. it would flare up every so often, but she stayed mad about it through all eight years. and there was a little carryover of the next year and a half tail after that, and i think we've-- you know, she finally sort of forgave me until this interview in which case i think it's brought up all th

i don't know why harry reid did but he ended as your number the senate filibuster on judicial appointments in 2013, and ruth bader ginsburg was very confident that like either hillary clinton would win or donald trump after four years would not win reelection because when she was much more vigorous but she was 81 or 82, let's say in 2013 or 14 when obama had the democratic senate and he could've easily replaced a distinguished jurist at 81, that didn't happen. so now we have this unique situation where the president as the senate and a liberal jurist passed away with a desire to be replaced by a liberal jurist from the conservative president with a conservative senate. how do you put all this together and what you think will happen on what you think should happen in this very delicate situation? and also the politics of it. if you would just comment period the courts seem to be, you have a good point that they become almost a legislative branch that is more important or has more power in the executive branch sometimes. >> guest: i think that's right, and i think that we have to somehow res

rich democratic donors and the scheme involved a casino pushed by then the senate majority leader harry reiding former virginia clinton crony terry mcauliffe. this is disgusting swamp corruption and astonishing that biden wants new yorkers but this is more proof that biden is the swamp. matt, i'm amazed that this is not already a bigger scandal and i can't believe that they didn't check this out in the vetting of this man so they must've known about him so it's perfectly fine so it's okay to literally sell green cards to chinese nationals and then put you in charge of homeland security. >> sadly this happens all the time. it's becoming increasingly clear that in joe biden's america it might be illegal to open a restaurant but encouraged to invite essential american caravan or make book with the chinese who wanted to buy their way into the country rather than participate in a legal immigration system. putting alejandro mayorkas in charge of the department of homeland secret is like putting the fire festival crew in charge of the inauguration. this is someone who is a pro- immigration activist

i'm the only democrat senator that has voted against the filibuster, the nuclear option that harry reid13 and i voted against the nuclear option when mitch mcconnell did it in 2017 for the supreme court. i thought we should be working together, should take a minimum of 60 and that means are going to have to have a few democrats or republicans depending on who's in the majority to work together. that's what we are all about. why would you break that down? then there's no need to have the senate. >> bret: there are some republicans will say to you i don't buy it, there's going to be too much pressure on you. chuck schumer is going to come hard and he's going to say i will give you a chairmanship of xyz and they are going to come hard to get that vote. you voted some key votes against amy coney barrett's confirmation, you said you didn't like the process, if i remember right, such was qualified but you voted against her. you voted against the $500 billion covid relief bill, you said it wasn't big enough, but if you were a republican you would have voted for it. you voted for the justice ac

interesting to see how many of those that are creatures of that old senate, seen on other than harry reide out in a filibuster for example i think tells you there's no danger of dramatic reform destroying the senate. it's about how we can put it back together that will be interesting to see how a presidenpresident biden will gu. one anonymous attendee asks the question off topic but can you see buddy and truman, unfortunately no, they are out of the house at the moment so they will not be making an appearance but we also will not be interrupted as we sometimes are. [inaudible] >> they might find their way in. you never know. >> there's there is a question m another anonymous attendee that draws attention to the transition and you know, this is a period where i can't think of another time certainly in modern history where the window of transition mattered more or there's more pressure on people and it's worth mentioning through their differences there was a remarkable degree of collaboration between the outgoing george w. bush administration and incoming barack obama for the legislation an

harry reid once won a race by less than 500 votes. it can be close. joe biden is hoping this will grow but it's much closer than they want. >> and the trump team was telling everybody who would listen, nevada is in play. and everybody in the analysis map kept giving it to joe biden in large part because of harry reid's organization. they changed it into a place democrats thought they had unlocked based on early voting turnout. clark county, 10, 11-point margin, ball game. biden had an 11-point margin by the night. by this morning, he no longer had the margin. you lay the key economic of largely vote by mail, and how that outcome turns out. it's skewed democratic throughout the course of the morning. we will see if it does if it comes in. if you're the trump campaign, you're hoping and praying it does not because if it does not and you have a shot at nevada, you change everything in the math we just laid out. as it currently stands, the biden campaign probably in a better position based on everything we've been looking at over the course of the last 12

reform ahead it's interesting to see how many of those who are creatures of the old senate even like harry reidome up with the new filibuster tells you there is no danger of dramatic reform destroying the senate is just how we put it back together and that will be interesting to see how president biden will guide that. >> off-topic actually the dogs are out of the house for the moment they will be making an appearance that also means we will not be interrupted as we sometimes are. [laughter] >> they may find their way and spent there is a question from another anonymous attendee that draws attention to the transition and this is a period where i cannot think of another time in modern history where the window transition has mattered more maybe a little bit under obama during his arrival and it's worth mentioning that for all the dramatic differences is a remarkable degree of collaboration between the outgoing george w. bush and then coming barack obama to align legislation because those crashes happening september october cannot wait until january maybe i get is a standing killing but even so no

during the obama administration, a number of times, things had reached an impasse where president or harry reid with mcconnell. and joe biden stepped in. he's -- he's an experienced negotiator and i think it's very useful we're going to have someone who knows the senate as well as joe biden does. >> i have to read you a quote from joe scarborough, this morning. and here it is and i will get your reaction. there's no way to put this other than to say joe biden winning looks like a one off. this election, for the most part, was an absolute repudiation of the democratic party, as a brand. that's the quote. senator, i'm sure it's an overstatement. but i'm, also, sure he was looking at congressional races. speaker pelosi's thin majority. and he was looking at things like the toxicity of a phrase like defund the police. >> yeah. that was a dumb phrase, wherever it came from, because that's ridiculous. no one wants to, or almost no one wants to, defund the police. you can't. we need police reform but that was very unfortunate that that stuck and it did. yes, it was disappointing both how we did in the

campaign, and joel payne, former senior aide to the clinton campaign, former press secretary to harry reidk you so much to both of you. lonnie, first to you, what is -- who is holding up more republicans? >> the same thing, andrea, the sail story that we've heard all along which is that they want to give the president and his legal team the opportunity to make their case. what's clear is there is no case. that in fact what we're seeing is we're seeing a bunch of flailing from members of the legal team. some certainly more than others. i expect that you will see more and more republicans make the conclusion and state the conclusion that i think is abundantly clear, that this election was conducted clearly, it was conducted properly, and the results are clear. i think it will come as states certify its results. georgia certified its results, michigan hopefully will do so, as well. as this process continues and as we move toward the selection of electors to officially cast votes for the president and vice president of the united states, i do think more and more republicans are going to state

senate majority leader harry reid i mean thank you for taking the time for us today as i read out those suits and the failure as already made it makes you wonder is this just a bit of a as they say in america or a hail mary of throwing anything at it and hoping that something sticks. i think that's what it is i mean president trump has a long history in his private life of using lawsuit says a way of creating a new sense of creating some spin around his particular point of view and this seems to be more of the same there just doesn't seem to be the evidence of widespread voter fraud or irregularities here that would merit a court really taking action and frankly as the electoral college numbers continue to go up in favor of a president biden the likelihood that any lawsuit would be successful and have a material impact on the election is basically nonexistent ok so even with the limited detail we've got let's let's look at the allegations of late votes invalid votes. what are those allegations and do they hold up. well in the 1st instance it seems to be that president trump is character

the harry reid machine recklessly threw ballots into the mail, and now we cannot check whether or nota should be also looking at, publicly-available information that non-residents have voted. there is a 30-day residency requirement in the state of nevada. if you haven't been in the state for 30 days, it is illegal to vote. reporters have a responsibility. the fact is we are filing this federal lawsuit to protect legal voters. it is unacceptable in this country to have illegal votes counted. and that is what's happening in the state of nevada. we've asked clark county for answers, they have no answers. they continue to count illegal votes. that is unacceptable, and it's giving legal people a sense that the system is corrupt. we have to have a system where legal votes are cast. what the harry reid machine has done is throw out recklessly ballots, and now they don't want us to check those ballots, and we are seeing discrepancies all over. we are asking clark county to give us answers. all of your questions about the details are legitimate questions, and they should be asked of clark coun

we have to have a system where legal votes are cast but the harry reid machine has done is throw outk those ballots. and we're seeing discrepancies all over. we are asking clark county to give us answers. all of your questions about the details are legitimate questions and they should be asked of clark county because the clark county officials are silent. they are not giving us any answers and they continue to count these illegal votes. ballots versus legal votes. that's what we're talking about. it is unacceptable in this country. the presidency is literally in the -- you are here to take in information, okay? >> what is your name? >> thank you all for turning out. thank you all for turning out. the presidency hangs in the balance. what the fundamental principle is here is that we want to be able to make sure that the counting that occurs and that the results that happen can be respected by every american voter across this land and truly across the world. if you are not allowed in to see the process, both sides and all of you in the media so that there is transparency. so that there

did not serve in the senate or with barack obama, a guy who was there, the second he got there, harry reiduman, like joe biden, was a creature of the senate. that was a good thing because it made truman understand that more was required of a president than putting out snide press releases or signing executive orders, that he had no alternative, along with joe biden now, but to work with republicans who had spent their entire political lives working against his political interests. that's how washington works. but he labored long and hard to build that working relationship with vandenberg. not just vandenberg, but also chairman eaton who ron the foreign policy committee in the house. and they had so much at stake because they were trying to move past 150 years of american isolationism in peacetime. american isolationism in peacetime. you know, george washington's farewell address, he warned of foreign entanglements. he warned america against getting involved in foreign affairs. and that speech was so revered in the senate, and the senate was sort of ground zero for american isolationism, i

senate majority leader harry reid it's good to have you with us ok these case is going to go to the supreme court it's highly unlikely to get to the supreme court there have to be some material case issues of law or a fact and we're really not seeing either it's not against the law to vote against donald trump despite what he might allege and so that's why we're seeing so many of these cases being thrown out as quickly as they are what is the routes that they that these cases are taking because all we're hearing is that the trump campaign is putting these cases forward but i'm not entirely clear who he's presenting these cases to. he's filing them both in federal court as well as in state courts it looks that some of them are not actually being filed always in the right place there have been some cases where the judges actually questioned why it's being heard for example in federal court when there was a state court issue that was disputed but that just demonstrates that these are not carefully crafted legally and evidentiary based lawsuits they're really nuisance lawsuits that are meant mo

remember when yellen was confirmed back in 2014, it was early 2014 democrats and majority leader harry reid were in control of the senate even so, yellen did secure a handful of republican votes back then the vote, according to the record, was 56 in favor of yellen, 26 against her and 18 not voting the issue here, the handful of republican senators who voted in her favor are for the most part no longer serving in congress. you can't go back to those same folks. certainly the dynamic and partisanship on capitol hill has wouldened and become exacerbated during that time last week president-elect biden said his pick want someone would be widely accepted from the progressive side to the more moderate side. yellen as having run the san francisco fed at a time when kamala harris, the vice president-elect harris was the attorney general in california and being a labor economist when labor issues are at the forefront of what a lot of policy officials at this campaign are focused on -- that's certainly something that is at the forefront of their mind, too. and then there is the centrist support, whi

this president, working with nancy pelosi and harry reid, rank and file members, all came together to get back down to the white house. come back down here. the president wants to see you. i went out on the independence side toward the house. there were people that seemed to have gathered. it was very emotional. i got back down to the white house. i opened the door to the roosevelt room. it's uproarouious. people were hugging me. >> president obama invited a small group up to the residence. it was a combination of the people who had really helped get the healthcare bill done. but then he wanted people like me, who had been there in 2007 and 2008 to be there for that moment. >> mrs. obama was out of town, which is how he got away with doing something that spontaneous. it was an incredible night. he thanked every single person. >> raising toasts and celebrating and looking with awe on this amazing view. this was about 11:00 at night. the truman balcony looks over the south lawn. you can see the washington monument and jefferson memorial in the distance. >> i remember seeing this incredi

most democrats believe because of the turnout operation, harry reid his whole team what they've doneut nevada in a pretty good lock. the trump campaign has repeatedly say this is in play. right now it's in play. 86% reporting, joe biden with a narrow lead. all eyes on clark county. you look at clark county and you say 10% is the fire wall here. if you're winning clark county by 10% and are a democrat you're pretty good to go. >> they're not there. >> it was at 10% until a couple hours ago, now it's narrowed down. there's outstanding vote in clark county, 84% reporting. democrats this is way too close for county particularly because joe biden is winning washau. hillary clinton won it as we went on to win the state. joe biden winning it handily. the difference the turnout in the rurals and keeping the margins close in clark, right now only 7,000 votes separate. the one biggest wild card, biggest wrench to any pathway the biden campaign would have is all of a sudden if this changes. we won't know anything not today until tomorrow according to nevada officials. we will have to wait and s

it got personal between harry reid, the majority leader at the time, and the nominee, john mccain.had been friends and during that election year it got very personal. so i think they have a good relationship, but at the same time, mitch mcconnell easily won his reelection bid and it looks like he will hold onto the senate, so there is not a huge incentive for mcconnell, who said his top political goal in the first term of president obama was to make obama a one term president. i am sure mcconnell wants to make biden a one term president as well. host: i invite callers to join in. if you are a democrat, [video clip] -- (202) 748-8000. a republican, (202) 748-8001. .n independent, (202) 748-8002 text us at (202) 748-8003. your newspaper has this headline. democrats look to sharpen message after senate setback. explain. guest: democrats are disappointed. they have been trying to win back the senate for years and they thought this was the best chance in recent memory. two years ago, when they fell short, senate majority leader -- senate minority leader chuck schumer indicated that 2020

we took it live here on the fox news channel and i know rick blamed the harry reid machine for a numberthat was his allegation. but in the lawsuit there in nevada, you want them to stop counting illegal votes. what makes them illegal? >> i think we are getting confused on stopping the counting. what we want to do is make sure there is a witness at the table steve stove just transparency. you would like what they had in florida. >> right. so, steve, can you raise the objection that a ballot came in after election day. you couldn't have a democracy if people could know what the delta was in the tally and then all of a sudden be able to bring new ballots. we also know that there are more people on the voting rolls here than live here. we just laptops and publicly available information found 3,000 people who voted in this election who don't live here this is us going online and use our wits to find out what's going on on the ground. this is a terrible way to run an elections. the presidency hangs in the balance and the american people are shut out of a transparent process. that means that t

they were the reason that harry reid was able to pull that rabbit out of that hat in thinks la his lastng to trend because of the latino vote and because of that labor culinary vote. it's going to trend blue. that is going to be key for biden going in and giving that cushion that is so necessary for that blue wall in the upper midwest. >> well, we'll be watching that. it's just a few minutes before the top of the hour, 8:00 on the east coast. entering our tenth hour of coverage here on msnbc and last night on peacock. we want to start with national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. i know the biden campaign is counting on some key states, key states that they have been counting on all along, unlike states like florida that didn't go their way. but my question for you at this hour is, from what you are looking at and that the counties that are still coming in, is the possibility for biden real? how real? and real enough to avoid the possibility of a recount? >> yes. let's take a look here, a couple different states. nevada, by the way, we are not going to get